Bruton Turnpike Trust(updated 23rd Sept
2013)

This trust was created
in 1756. Its main responsibilities were the roads between Bruton and Frome a
network of roads radiating from the market town into SE Somerset.

List of
Acts

Bruton

29 Geo2 c50

1756

7 Geo3

1767

33 Geo3 c155

1793

50 Geo3 c101

1810

1 Wil4 c66

1831

1862

Expired

1876

Bruton
1810

An Act to
continue and amend an Act of the Thirty-third Year of His present Majesty, for
repairing several Roads in and near the Town of Brewton, and other Roads, in the
Counties of Somerset and Wilts, therein described. [18th May 1810.]

Bruton
1831

An Act for more
effectually repairing several Roads in and near the Town of Bruton,
and other Roads, in the Counties of Somerset
and Wilts, and for making and maintaining Two other Roads communicating
therewith. [22d April 1831.]

Select Committee on State of Roads 1840

Stephen Penny of Bruton (clerk to the trust) reported

There are 56 and three quarter miles of road through 31 parishes – all
repaired by contract with the trustees

15 toll gates and 7 side bars

The roads are stated to be in “good” repair – no part under indictment
for want of repair.

In “Return of length of road in each Turnpike
Trust in England & Wales”
Parl. Papers 1847-48 – (dated May 1848)

Trust reported 56
miles 6 furl. 0 yds (similar to 1840)

List of Roads

(road identified and mapped in “Somerset Roads
– the Legacy of Turnpike, by Bentley and Murless 1985”)

Known
Tollhouses(extracts from Tollhouse National
database) 15 sites identified of the 15 reported by the Trust in 1840
(Survivors in bold)

Road
Classification Number

Route

GATE NAME

OS Grid Ref-
Prefi

Easting

Northing

District

Civil Parish

Location (Name or
Number)

Road or Street
(see across)

Position

Evidence

erected by
(Turnpike Trust or Authority)

Revised 23rd Sept
2013

A359

Frome to
Bruton

Burrowfield
(Brewnham)

ST

68727

35118

SOSS

BRUTON

Old Toll
House

Frome Road

at jct with
Quaperlake Street and Brewnham Road

OS 1st
Series; ; advert for lease of tolls 1826.;

Bruton

B3081

Bruton to
Evercreech

Combe Hill

ST

684

352

SOSS

BRUTON

Combe Hill

OS 1st Series; ;
;

Bruton

B3081

Bruton to
Evercreech

Creech Hill

ST

672

363

SOME

LAMYAT

Creech Hill

OS 1st Series; ;
advert for lease of tolls 1826.;

Bruton

A361

Bruton to Frome

Frome (Marston)

ST

764

463

SOME

FROME

Marston Gate

OS 1st Series; ;
advert for lease of tolls 1826.;

Bruton

A361

Bruton to Frome

Hartgill

ST

723

450

SOME

NUNNEY

OS 1st Series; ;
advert for lease of tolls 1826.;

Bruton

UC road

Bruton to
Batcombe

Hedgestock

ST

683

372

SOME

LAMYAT

Batcombe Road

OS 1st Series; ;
advert for lease of tolls 1826.;

Bruton

UC road

Maiden Bradley to
Longbridge D

Horningsham

ST

833

405

WIWW

HORNINGSHAM

OS 1st Series; ;
advert for lease of tolls 1826.;

Bruton

A361

Bruton to Frome

Leighton &
Michael's Ash

ST

681

442

SOME

CRANMORE

OS 1st Series; ; advert
for lease of tolls 1826.;

Bruton

A359

Frome to Bruton

Lusty

ST

68

34

SOSS

BRATTON SEYMOUR

Tollgate House,
Lusty

; ; advert for
lease of tolls 1826.;

Bruton

A361

Bruton to Frome

Nunney (catch)

ST

7386

4476

SOME

TRUDOXHILL

photo from 1925

OS 1st Series; ;
advert for lease of tolls 1826.;

Bruton

B3081

Bruton to
Wincanton

Redlynch

ST

702

303

WISA

REDLYNCH

Hardway jct

OS 1st Series; ;
advert for lease of tolls 1826.;

Bruton

UC road

Bruton to
Ditcheat

Shute Lane

ST

67900

34702

SOSS

BRUTON

Turnpike
Cottage

Shute Lane

at jct with
Providence Place

; ; advert
for lease of tolls 1826.;

Bruton

B3081

Bruton to
Wincanton

Sutton Venny

ST

90

42

WIWW

SUTTON VENY

; ; advert for
lease of tolls 1826.;

Bruton

Westward

ST

SOSS

Westward

; ; advert for
lease of tolls 1826.;

Bruton

UC road

North Brewham to
Maiden Bradley

Yarnfield &
Sheepleigh Hill

ST

768

376

WISA

MAIDEN BRADLEY
WITH YARNFIELD

Yarnfield Gate

Yarnfield was in
Somerset

OS 1st Series; ; advert
for lease of tolls 1826.;

Bruton

Known Milestones

In the Milestone
Society Database, 19milestones are identified along this road, mostly on the
A359 and B3081, most in a designs referred to as Bruton Plates. Based on the mileage
reported by the Trust in 1840, would expect 57.